Tag: AI Platforms & Assistants
‘Human lives are already being lost’: Open letter signed by hundreds of Google employees requests CEO reject ‘unethical and dangerous’ US military AI use
Google employees sign open letter to CEO over concerns of military AI use AI developers do not want their technology used for ‘classified purposes’ Google is currently negotiating a contract with the Pengaton Over 600 Google employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Sundar Pichai to reject any uses…
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‘10,000 times faster than a human scientist’ — New AI tool designed ultra-efficient heat-to-electricity generators at lightning speed, a breakthrough that could slash the cost of energy harvesters and help enable cheaper, high-performance home heat pumps
AI tool speeds thermoelectric generator design while matching leading prototype performance TEGNet cuts simulation time from thousands of seconds to fractions of one Cheaper waste-heat harvesters could follow, although manufacturing still has to prove itself Researchers in Japan have built an AI tool that can design thermoelectric generators far faster…
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AI did what? ChatGPT’s big upgrade, Google’s plans to make AI invisible, DeepSeek’s return and more of the week’s most surprising developments
This week felt less like a collection of AI news stories and more like an early look at where the technology is really heading. Because yes, there are model upgrades and new features and disturbing stories this week, as there always are. But it all seemed to point to something…
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Google is turning AI into the layer over everything — and apps may never feel the same
Google plans to announce at Google I/O that it is making AI the main way people interact with their phones Android 17 and Gemini will handle everyday tasks automatically Apps will still exist, but mostly in the background Google‘s big I/O conference is coming soon, and the tech giant has…
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‘Simply by doing their daily work’: Meta tracks staff activity to teach AI how to replace them
Meta is recording employee clicks, keystrokes, and screen activity to train AI agents on real work behavior The program is part of a broader push to build AI systems that can perform everyday tasks with minimal human input The move comes just ahead of reports of layoffs at the company…
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I used to edit print magazines — ChatGPT Images 2’s magazine layouts look real, but they’re completely unusable
The new ChatGPT Images 2 is now available across all the different ChatGPT subscriptions, including Free. It’s a much improved version of the original ChatGPT images that features more precise image generation, particularly of small text, more aspect ratios for images, and paid users now get thinking-enabled workflows, so it…
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